Manager, Paid Growth Marketing

DoorDash USA; United States; Remote; USD 143,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

11 paid holidays

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a strategic paid media leader to own the Co-Marketing Paid Media strategy and operations in the US, supporting +20 campaigns across multi‑million dollar budgets. You’ll set the operating model, guide cross‑functional discussions, and lead agency and platform partners as the owner of paid marketing decisions.

You will drive channel strategy, build playbooks, and manage a small team while shaping how paid media scales with data-driven decisions and clear narratives for

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in paid media, performance marketing, campaign management or marketing operations.
• Experience managing agencies and paid channels such as CTV/OLV, programmatic, paid social, and DOOH.
• Strong command of campaign measurement, including ROAS, benchmarking and root cause analysis of performance.
• Track record of owning cross-functional projects and decisions without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with leadership-ready updates and recommendations.
• Experience building and scaling processes, trackers and playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end paid marketing operations, from intake and planning through launch, in-flight management and recap.
• Make independent decisions on campaign operations and bring a clear recommendation to cross-functional discussion: channel mix, creative, and optimization strategies.
• Problem solving: align budgets, partnership commitments, and required approvals when there are unknowns.
• Lead agencies and platform partners such as our Media Agency, Meta and The Trade Desk, from brief to delivery.
• Drive strategic projects end to end, including building channel playbooks, process revamps and the test-and-learn agenda.
• Lead and develop a team of 2 (with opportunity to scale), delegating ownership of processes and planning capacity against the campaign calendar.
• Must have experience interacting with AI tools and the ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Deliver leadership-ready updates and risk flags with proactive escalations and recommended solutions.

Skills

Paid media

Campaign management

Agency management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisions

AI tools familiarity

Tools

Sigma

iSpot

Monday.com

Meta

The Trade Desk

Job description

New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Tempe, AZ, Washington, D.C.

About the Team

DoorDash’s mission is to grow and empower local economies. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash connects people with the local businesses they care about, helping grow businesses and the communities that support them. To further this mission, we’re looking for an experienced paid media operator to join our Consumer Marketing team at a pivotal time for DoorDash Ads and paid co-marketing.

The Cx Ads Paid team plans, launches and measures paid media campaigns with brand and CPG partners, working alongside Ads Integrated Marketing, Sales, Partnerships and our agency partners. The team is growing, and this person will help shape how paid marketing operates as it scales.

About the Role

We’re looking for a strategic, decisive paid marketing leader to own Co-Marketing Paid Media strategy and operations in the US as it pertains to supporting Co-Marketing Merchant priorities. This role will support +20 strategic campaigns across $XXM covering CPG, Restaurant, and New Vertical industries. You will set the operating model, make the decisions that keep the campaign on track against launch timing, ROAS performance, and advertisers commitments. You will be the voice of Paid in cross-functional forums, arriving with data, a clear point of view and a recommendation, and you will lead agency and platform partners as the single accountable owner. This is your opportunity to influence and own a Paid marketing function as a lead, touching channel decision making and strategy with Director + visibility.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Own the end to end paid marketing operations, from intake and planning through launch, in-flight management and recap
• Make independent decisions on campaign operations and bring a clear recommendation to cross-functional discussion: For example channel mix, creative, and optimization strategies.
• Problem Solving: When there are unknowns, be the central driver to align on things like budgets, partnership commitments, and required approvals
• Lead agencies and platform partners such as our Media Agency, Meta and The Trade Desk, from brief to delivery
• Drive strategic projects end to end, including building channel playbooks, process revamps and the test-and-learn agenda
• Lead and develop a team of 2 (with opportunity to scale), delegating ownership of processes and planning capacity against the campaign calendar
• Must have experience interacting with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) and the ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Leadership Communication Opportunity: Keep leadership and partners informed with proactive updates, early risk flags and escalations that come with a proposed solution
• Deliver recap reports and performance readouts with a clear narrative and benchmarks, ready for Marketing and Sales review

We’re excited about you because…

You’re a decisive, results-oriented marketer who has led paid media programs and XFN teams. You form a point of view from data, act on it, and keep the right people informed along the way. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, delegating work you should not be doing yourself, and holding partners to a high bar. You have experience managing leadership and can write and speak concisely to such an audience

• 5-8 years of experience in paid media, performance marketing, campaign management or marketing operations
• Experience managing agencies and paid channels such as CTV/OLV, programmatic, paid social, and DOOH
• Strong command of campaign measurement, including ROAS, benchmarking and root cause analysis of performance
• Track record of owning cross-functional projects and decisions without direct authority
• Sound judgment on when to decide, when to align and when to elevate
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with examples of leadership-ready updates and recommendations
• Experience building and scaling processes, trackers and playbooks
• [Preferred] Experience in CPG, QSR or marketplace co-marketing, and with tools such as Sigma, iSpot or Monday.com

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
• We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day.
• We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
• We are customer obsessed - Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
• We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
• We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

We expect this position to be filled by 07/12/2026

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$142,800 - $210,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods. DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.